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CHAPTER- IV
SECTION-I
JOB SATISFACTION
4.1
INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management is considered to be the most valuable asset in
any organization. It is the sum-total of inherent abilities, acquired knowledge and skills represented by the talents and aptitudes of the employed persons who comprise of executives, supervisors, and the rank and file employees. It may be noted here that human resources should be utilized to the maximum possible extent, in order to achieve individual and organizational goals. It is thus the employee‟s performance which ultimately decides and attainment of goals. However, the employee performance is to a large extent, influenced by motivation and job satisfaction.1. Human resource management is a specialized functional area of business that attempts to develop programmes, policies, and activities to promote the job satisfaction of both individual and organizational needs, goods and objectives.2
People join organizations with certain motives like security of income and job, better prospects in future, and satisfaction of social and psychological needs.
Every person has different sets of needs at different times. It is the responsibility of management to recognize this basic fact and provide appropriate opportunities and environments to people at work to satisfy their needs.3 In this chapter the researcher wants to explain about job satisfaction, nursing and nursing job satisfaction.
4.2
DEFINITION OF JOB SATISFACTION
The term job satisfaction figures prominently in any discussions on
management of human resources. Job satisfaction refers to a person‟s feeling of satisfaction on the job, which acts as a motivation to work. It is not the selfsatisfaction, happiness or self- contentment but the satisfaction on the job.4
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Job satisfaction is an individual‟s felling regarding his or her work. It can be influenced by a multitude of factors.5 The term relates to the total relationship
between
CHAPTER- IV
SECTION-I
JOB SATISFACTION
4.1
INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management is considered to be the most valuable asset in
any organization. It is the sum-total of inherent abilities, acquired knowledge and skills represented by the talents and aptitudes of the employed persons who comprise of executives, supervisors, and the rank and file employees. It may be noted here that human resources should be utilized to the maximum possible extent, in order to achieve individual and organizational goals. It is thus the employee‟s performance which ultimately decides and attainment of goals. However, the employee performance is to a large extent, influenced by motivation and job satisfaction.1. Human resource management is a specialized functional area of business that attempts to develop programmes, policies, and activities to promote the job satisfaction of both individual and organizational needs, goods and objectives.2
People join organizations with certain motives like security of income and job, better prospects in future, and satisfaction of social and psychological needs.
Every person has different sets of needs at different times. It is the responsibility of management to recognize this basic fact and provide appropriate opportunities and environments to people at work to satisfy their needs.3 In this chapter the researcher wants to explain about job satisfaction, nursing and nursing job satisfaction.
4.2
DEFINITION OF JOB SATISFACTION
The term job satisfaction figures prominently in any discussions on
management of human resources. Job satisfaction refers to a person‟s feeling of satisfaction on the job, which acts as a motivation to work. It is not the selfsatisfaction, happiness or self- contentment but the satisfaction on the job.4
117
Job satisfaction is an individual‟s felling regarding his or her work. It can be influenced by a multitude of factors.5 The term relates to the total relationship
between